LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Aptverta ir saugoma kaimynystė; Aptvertas ir saugomas būstas; Aptvertos ir saugomos gyvenvietės; Aptvertos ir saugomos kaimynystės; Aptvėrimas; Posovietinis; Posovietinės valstybės; Postsovietinės šalys; Prestižiniai būstai; Prestižiniai kvartalai; Prestižiniai namai; Socialinis nesaugumas; Vartai; Šalys; Gated and guarded housing; Gated and guarded neighbourhood; Gating; Post-Soviet; Post-Soviet states; Prestigious dwellings; Social insecurity; States.
ENThe aim of the paper is to name the main reasons of the establishment and development of gated and guarded neighbourhoods in Lithuania based on the original researches that have been carried out by the article authors. Also, the article includes the researches of other countries’ GGN as it allows comparing the results and conclusions with the Lithuanian ones. Taking into account the developers’ motives for building such kind of settlements, the reasons of inhabitants to move into the GGN and the public opinion it might be underlined that the gated and guarded neighbourhoods are built not because of the need for physical security but first of all for the possibility for the special resident groups to live separated from the fragmented socium. In the enclosed neighbourhoods of this type as well in all newly built settlements, a special role is played by the fence that becomes the symbolic boundary between harmonious and fragmented world. [From the publication]